Posts Tagged ‘sewer repair’
Top 5 Reasons Contractors Choose Trenchless Equipment
Contractors expect equipment they can depend upon. Trenchless Equipment (TE) has worked closely with contractors designing its equipment. TE makes sure its equipment is durable and minimizes downtime for expensive repairs. TE designs its equipment with contractors in mind. The closed cable system is designed to prevent the wire rope from popping out of the…
Read MoreHow Duct Rodders can simplify your Trenchless Technology projects
The Duct Rodder is an important tool to simplify your pipe replacement project. The duct rodder was originally designed to fish electrical wire behind walls and overhead ceilings. Over time it has been adapted to work with the telecommunication, water, gas and sewer pipelines. The rodder is a flexible fiberglass cable that allows the user…
Read MoreTrenchless Equipment’s Pipe Expanding Bursting Heads
Contractors expect their pipe replacement equipment to be reliable. Trenchless Equipment (TE) has spent a number of years working closely with the pipeline contractors refining its pipe bursting equipment in order to exceed expectations. First, TE starts out with the strongest metal to mill into a pipe bursting head. Second, we “through-harden” the material to…
Read MoreManaging Wire Rope Stretch
Trenchless Equipment (TE) Pipe Bursting machines utilize “Compact” Swaged Wire Rope. This type of wire rope is often used in logging. Big Timber, a logging series on Netflix, demonstrates how these swaged wire ropes are used in logging. For pipe bursting use, the benefit of this rope is that it is flexible, has high tonnage…
Read MoreManaging HDPE pipe stretch
Pipe Bursting machines may use 70 tons or more of pulling force to install a municipal sewer or water main. During a pipe replacement project, the polyethylene (HDPE) pipe may stretch. This stretching can be due to friction. Ground conditions may force the old pipe to put pressure onto the HDPE pipe. Friction may also…
Read MoreHDPE Pipe
Trenchless Equipment’s Pipe Bursting machines utilize High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) pipe to replace or repair underground sewer and water pipelines. HDPE pipe is flexible and forgiving. HDPE can be flexed into nearly a 180 degree bend in order to be turned away from picture windows, enter basements and flex around walls and doorways. It still…
Read MoreAsbestos Concrete Pipe
Trenchless Equipment recently spoke to the City of Sunnyvale in California in order to assist a client who was replacing an Asbestos Concrete (AC) Pipe. The city said that if the client was to proceed by pipe bursting the line, then the city recommended using a snap cutter to remove the section of AC pipe…
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